 What is the best analogy for the Noosphere?
What would be the best analogical representation for the Noosphere? This idea has been solved a few times, but the solutions vary greatly in effectiveness (though the trend is increasing).
1. Natural language: this is the first representation of the Noosphere. It is effective in representing the localized structure and affect, but falls short in universality, major structures, and rationalization.
2. Information spaces: representing ideas in 3d space makes for more intuitive and memorable descriptions, but falls short of representing the true structure because it is lacking both in dimensionality and scope (in both the indentificational and functional frames of reference).
3. Hyper{text,media}: this combines the three, and additionally solves the dimensionality and context-reference problems, as well as making things more universal, however the scope of structural view is very low (one cannot see without difficulty more than one or two ties and nodes at a time).
What kinds of attributes would be necessary to build a more complete model?
I think this knowledge would be both practical on a HID level and invaluable for understanding of conciousness and consensual-conciousness, as well as useful in a number of other frames of reference that may or may not be related to MindSpace.
~John Ohno  | 
this fog could turn out to be just mist? 
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